Gabby Otchere-Darko, a key figure in the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has claimed that a senior bank employee in the US is involved in a bribery case related to a power contract with a Turkish company from the John Mahama administration.
He made this claim while challenging the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former President John Dramani Mahama to provide a clear example of wrongdoing by President Akufo-Addo or his appointees that matches the serious findings and admissions of guilt in the Airbus bribery case.
Otchere-Darko asked them to compare the Airbus case with any charges they have made against the NPP.
His comments come after John Mahama stated that the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s (OSP) report, which found no evidence of wrongdoing on his part in the Airbus case, was a welcome vindication.
Mahama pointed out that, despite being out of office for over seven years, no corruption allegations, including the Airbus “scandal,” have been proven against him.
He added, “We in the NDC do not consider ourselves above the law.
We are willing to cooperate with investigations if there is a valid reason.
Despite being out of office for more than seven years, no allegations of wrongdoing, including the unfounded Airbus issue, have been substantiated against me.”
In a post on his X platform, Gabby Otchere-Darko reacted by saying, “It’s astonishing how an innocent interest in a transaction can be wrongly interpreted as suspicious by even reputable investigators.
Thankfully, Akufo-Addo’s careful Office of the Special Prosecutor is on the case.
Yet, the NDC and John Mahama continue to use allegations of corruption against the current president, his family, and appointees as their main campaign message.
They’ve even resorted to using obviously fake documents, rather than credible reports, to make their case.”
“But, this is what is interesting though! Let us dare the opposition and their “squeaky clean” leader to name one clear case (not mere allegation) against Akufo-Addo, his family members or appointees that come anywhere remotely close to this Airbus case and its volumes of findings by investigators and admissions of guilt by the bribe giver.
“Let them put the Airbus case side by side to any of the charges they continue to lay on NPP’s doorsteps.
Yet, so desperate are they that they (led by JM himself) are eager to rely confidently & unashamedly on a book of fiction as their main dossier of evidence & to use same to draw links and conclusions from other instances to show that what Ghanaians are enduring today is worse than what they did see under Mahama’s NDC; never mind the tons of evidence of real developments and spendings that have gone directly into the welfare and wellbeing of families and communities across the country.”
